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    <p><strong>Short Answer:</strong><br /> <strong>NO, images are NOT downloaded inside a <code>&lt;noscript&gt;</code> element</strong></p> <p><strong>Technical Answer:</strong></p> <p>I had just been doing some testing on my personal website for functionality with JavaScript disabled, and came across this article… with JavaScript still disabled, btw.</p> <p>Well, at the very top of this web page, Stack Overflow have a warning message which states:</p> <p>“Stack Overflow works best with JavaScript enabled”</p> <p>Being the type of web geek who tends to “view source” at practically <em>every single website</em> I look at (!), the HTML code for the message is as follows:</p> <pre><code>&lt;noscript&gt; &lt;div id="noscript-warning"&gt;Stack Overflow works best with JavaScript enabled&lt;img src="http://example.com/path/to/1x1-pixel.gif" alt="" class="dno"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/noscript&gt; </code></pre> <p>Nothing too ground-breaking there. However, what interested me was the <code>IMG</code> element, which referenced a 1px by 1px invisible image.</p> <p>I am <em>assuming</em> that this image must be used by analytics/statistics software to detect how many of their users are browsing without JavaScript. If this assumption <em>is</em> correct (and there isn’t any other reason for using a blank 1x1 pixel image here that I’ve overlooked here), therefore this would basically confirm the following: <strong>browsers <em>do not</em> download the contents of anything within a <code>NOSCRIPT</code> element</strong>, <em>except</em> in the situation that <em>JavaScript is actually disabled</em>. (And there certainly does not seem to be any retro ’98-style layout techniques going on, I am glad to say!) ;-)</p> <p>(P.S. – I hope that I don’t somehow offend anyone at the Stack Exchange network for pointing this out!)</p>
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